Comments on: If Paul Ryan is a Racist, then He’s Doing it All Wronghttps://www.catholicvote.org/if-paul-ryan-is-a-racist-then-hes-doing-it-all-wrong/
Tue, 31 Mar 2015 20:15:13 +0000hourly1By: morganBhttps://www.catholicvote.org/if-paul-ryan-is-a-racist-then-hes-doing-it-all-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-301696
morganBFri, 11 Apr 2014 15:56:40 +0000http://www.catholicvote.org/?p=59131#comment-301696Joshua, how can you take such a position? The overwhelming power of the wealthy is leveraged prior to the casting of votes. That is when the Kochs, Soros, Adelsons, Roves, PACs and CPACs are spending unlimited cash to get their way. You and me and John Q. Public do not participate except to be barraged by true and false TV ads of the PACs.

Until I get a straight answer from my congressmen I will consider Citizens United to be unconstitutional. It is blatant.

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Joshua MercerThu, 10 Apr 2014 23:46:42 +0000http://www.catholicvote.org/?p=59131#comment-301591We each have one ballot on Election Day. Citizens United doesn’t change that.
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morganBThu, 10 Apr 2014 23:37:02 +0000http://www.catholicvote.org/?p=59131#comment-301588Ryan, like all the TP young guns will fade like he did once Romney discovered how really far right he was. It has been proven that the more centered, (reasonable), you are the greater your electability. Ryan, like Cruz make good antagonists , but poor realists. Just look at his new budget. It cuts out many of the things the electorate, the Pope and the Catholic Bishops want. It favors those with wealth.

Recently, my US Senator Marco Rubio offered a reason for Citizens United that gave the Koch brothers and other billionaires a blank check to buy election offices. Rubio said that CU simply gave the rich the right to have their votes, (money), counted. I asked him two things… does Citizens United violate our constitution and if not, how does the constitutionally guarantee of “one man, one vote” remain effective? He never responded. He knows all to well that CU destroys one man, one vote

Paul Ryan is no racist, but he also is no realist.

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Stephen WhiteFri, 28 Mar 2014 17:52:55 +0000http://www.catholicvote.org/?p=59131#comment-298251George: Why do you assume that a criticism of the culture of our inner cities implies a criticism of you just because you live there? You seem to be suggesting that what applies the whole (e.g. to a culture) must also be true of a part (you, or some other individual). I find this entirely unpersuasive.
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GeorgeFri, 28 Mar 2014 15:52:03 +0000http://www.catholicvote.org/?p=59131#comment-298214Can you please explain the cultural problem that I have as someone who lives in a city?
]]>By: Stephen Whitehttps://www.catholicvote.org/if-paul-ryan-is-a-racist-then-hes-doing-it-all-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-297893
Stephen WhiteThu, 27 Mar 2014 20:44:24 +0000http://www.catholicvote.org/?p=59131#comment-297893And here’s an interesting piece from “The Objective Standard,” a magazine dedicated to the ideas an philosophy of Ayn Rand. In it the author makes the case that Paul Ryan rejects Rand’s philosophy in both word and deed. (The author also seems rather offended by any suggestion to the contrary.):

“Whatever Paul Ryan’s merits or demerits as a vice-presidential candidate, he does not embrace the philosophical or political views of Ayn Rand. He rejects Rand’s views—in both principle and practice. Anyone who suggests otherwise is either uninformed or aiming to deceive.”

]]>By: Stephen Whitehttps://www.catholicvote.org/if-paul-ryan-is-a-racist-then-hes-doing-it-all-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-297891
Stephen WhiteThu, 27 Mar 2014 20:30:27 +0000http://www.catholicvote.org/?p=59131#comment-297891Paul Ryan has he never professed himself a “devout follower” of Rand. The idea that Rand’s objectivism is Ryan’s central motivating ideology is a lie fabricated by his political opponents. Here he is addressing precisely this charge:

Brit Hume, FOX News: What is your view of Ayn Rand? Are you an Ayn Rand disciple?

Rep. Paul Ryan: No. I really enjoyed her novels, Atlas Shrugged in particular. It triggered my interest in economics. That’s where I got into studying economics. That’s why I wanted to study the whole field of economics.

I later in life learned about what her philosophy was, it’s called Objectivism. It’s something that I completely disagree with. It’s an atheistic philosophy. But I think what she’s done is she’s showed — she came from communism. She showed how the pitfalls of socialism can hurt the economy, can hurt people, families and individuals and that to me was very compelling novels. Which says freedom, free enterprise, liberty is so much better than totalitarianism and socialism. Those novels, I thought were interesting. But her philosophy, which is different, is something I just don’t agree with.

]]>By: Stephen Whitehttps://www.catholicvote.org/if-paul-ryan-is-a-racist-then-hes-doing-it-all-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-297890
Stephen WhiteThu, 27 Mar 2014 20:27:05 +0000http://www.catholicvote.org/?p=59131#comment-297890Precisely. Ryan, like Pope Francis, is insisting that we NOT content ourselves with assigning blame, but instead getting personally involved. You might even say he recommends a “culture of encounter.”
]]>By: Georgehttps://www.catholicvote.org/if-paul-ryan-is-a-racist-then-hes-doing-it-all-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-297655
GeorgeWed, 26 Mar 2014 21:48:00 +0000http://www.catholicvote.org/?p=59131#comment-297655Some simply content themselves with blaming the poor and the poorer countries themselves for their troubles; indulging in unwarranted generalizations, they claim that the solution is an “education” that would tranquilize them, making them tame and harmless.
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faithandfamilyfirstWed, 26 Mar 2014 18:10:27 +0000http://www.catholicvote.org/?p=59131#comment-297610Ryan’s comments may be reminiscent of and may call to mind Rerum Novarum, but he himself professes to be a devout following of Ayn Rand. Until he explains this contradiction (which, by the way, he cannot), or until he retracts his earlier praise of Rand, I will avoid casting a vote his way.
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